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Another listening rehab website: from Med-El

By Sara on March 26, 2009

I was looking for a good ‘what is a CI’ video and came across a press release from last week that talks about Med-El’s new SoundScape listening practice.  I don’t have my headphones with me at work today, but it looks like it would be useful and fun. http://www.medel.com/US/Rehabilitation/sound-scape.php

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Advanced Bionics Listening Room

By Sara on March 20, 2009

This looks like a really great set of listening activities - http://www.hearingjourney.com/Listening_Room/Teens_and_Adults/Listening_Gym/index.cfm?langid=1 I like the idea of being able to call a number and listen to a recording to practice using the phone.  I’m glad that the professional engineering exam that I am taking will be completely done before my surgery.  I have enough distractions from [...]

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Listening skills

By Sara on February 28, 2009

I’ve been reading a lot of new blogs lately, a lot of them written by other people about their cochlear implant experiences.  I love random web surfing so I don’t remember how I found most things.  When I end up with a couple dozen tabs open in Firefox I try to add blogs to Google [...]

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I'm a 30-something year old girl originally from upstate NY and now living in central Virginia. My background is in mechanical engineering and I worked full time as an engineer for 8 years. In 2010 I quit my job and started a laser engraving business.

I lost my hearing at age 14 and have been using hearing aids since then. In April 2009 I received my first cochlear implant. That went really well so in December 2009 I got the second. The CIs are what prompted me to start writing publicly - but I try to cover other things as well.

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